Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
PAT CONROYMy soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
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If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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